Excess of Rs 1,492 crore after meeting expenses/dividend payments not adequate for meeting costs of several projects.

Special housekeeping body to be set up to maintain stations and trains.

Passenger amenities to be given Rs 1,112 crore in 2012-13 as against Rs 762 crore in current year.

Indian railways passing through a difficult phase.

Improvement of passenger amenities at a cost of Rs 1,112 crore; regional cuisines to be introduced.

World Bank funding of R 6,500 crore firmed up for dedicated freight corridors; land acquired for 3,300 km; first contracts to be handed out during 2012-13.

Standard of hygiene needs to be improved substantially; all out efforts will be made on this in the next six months; duty bound to provide high standard of services; special housekeeping body to be set up for stations and trains

One lakh people to be recruited in 2012.

Corrosion from night soil being discharged from toilets on tracks costs Rs 350 crore annually; green toilets to be installed in 2,500 coaches in the next one year.

Electric loco plant in Chhapra to be commissioned soon.

750 km tracks to be converted in double lines.

Eco-friendly toilets to replace openly discharged ones.

Tickets will be sold at post offices also.

Garib Raths to have one special AC coach for differently-abled commuters.

2100 specially designed coaches manufactured to meet needs of the differently abled; aim to provide one such coach in each express train.

Upgradation of 929 stations.

1000 new stations to be set up through public-private partnership.

Electrification to be undertaken over 6,500 km at an allocation of Rs 8,000 crore during 12th Plan.

Conversion from DC to AC power supply completed in Western Railway corridor of Mumbai suburban rail system; conversion of Central Railway corridor to be completed in 2012-13.

The government should consider dividend payback to railways.

Thirty-one projects over 5,000 km being implemented with state govenments sharing costs.